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William BeaudineThe Living Ghost (1942)

A poverty-row mystery starring James Dunn. Also known as "A Walking Nightmare".


This movie is part of the collection: Feature Films

Director: William Beaudine
Audio/Visual: sound, black & white
Keywords: poverty row; mystery; James Dunn

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: Moongleam - - April 8, 2010
Subject: Derived files
Don't bother with the worthless files that the Archive derives; they don't know how to do it correctly.

Download the mpeg2 file or the Cinepack (avi) file.

Reviewer: picfixer - - April 5, 2010
Subject: Streaming audio badly out of sync
Don't bother, unless you don't mind going nuts trying to figure out who's saying what.

Reviewer: gestroud - - April 3, 2010
Subject: Quick-paced B Movie
Fast-paced, snappy dialog and an interesting storyline made this film worth a "listen."

Currently, there seems to be a small problem with two of the available downloads. The audio is about 5 seconds ahead of sync with the video portions of the Ogg and 512Kb MPEG4 files.

Beyond that, it's a reasonably good movie.

4 stars for the movie
4 stars for the video quality
4 stars for the audio quality
1 star for the synching problem

3.25 stars overall. Not bad.

Reviewer: billbarstad - - March 30, 2010
Subject: Who Done It?
While it was packed with cliché plot devices, this fast paced 'old house' mystery kept my attention for all 60 minutes. I like these old mysteries. Typical setup: Rich head of household disappears and best detective around is called in to solve it, then the mystery deepens. The directing was a bit off at times or maybe it was the editing or both, but the acting was Ok. The leads, James Dunn and Joan Woodbury, work well together. I always enjoy seeing J. Farrell MacDonald working; he plays the cop in this.

I downloaded the 863MB MPEG2 file. It's source had seen better days. Images seemed to vibrate now and then, which was annoying. Still, it wasn't too hard on the eyes. Some dialog was garbled. There were dropouts, too, but they didn't affect dialog.